BEING A FEMALE ENTREPRENEUR: Reimagine your Professional-self through Culture Erasmus Project

Project Title

BEING A FEMALE ENTREPRENEUR: Reimagine your Professional-self through Culture

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

In today’s Europe, many minorities, groups or sectors of the society are facing their different and specific challenges, but none of these sectors is as wide – representing around half of the EU population- as women. Among them, there are those who are struggling to find new ways to reconcile professional and personal life in order to be able to start their own professional careers and set up their businesses. For them, it is essential to create tailored and relevant products that will help them achieve their goals.
UNESCO has defined Cultural and Creative industries as the industrial reproduction and mass distribution of cultural works – going from visual and performing arts, cultural heritage, films, music, and books to design, architecture or advertising. Over the last years, and in line with “Creative Europe Framework”, this sector has emerged as a new and powerful force, with a great potential towards economic growth. And, at the same time, it is a very effective as well as attractive area for people to start their businesses. Female Entrepreneur, hence, will take advantage of the above mentioned and will empower women to deviate from their established professional role models through formal, non-formal and informal educational practices and enter the entrepreneurial sector in this specific field.
The project direct beneficiaries are:
·Women from disadvantaged groups (living in rural areas, economically challenged, long-term unemployed) interested in becoming cultural entrepreneur
·Internal and external experts and partner organisations
Besides, indirect beneficiaries and project stakeholders will be:
– Public Bodies (Business Bodies, Social Service departments, etc.)
– International bodies active in the field of adult education and training
– Cultural enterprises, tourism sector organisations and businesses, (adult) VET organisations/institutions.

This project envisages the development of four main Intellectual Outputs:
IO1. Cultural Entrepreneurship Map of Europe: creation of an open education resource with a database of legislation, standards, best practices in cultural entrepreneurship within the EU.
IO2. ICT Tool for (cultural) entrepreneurship competences assessment.
IO3. Self- Assessment Tool of Soft Skills
IO4. Online course targeting women: young and would-be cultural entrepreneurs

The project will provide both women entrepreneurs from disadvantaged backgrounds and educators working with them with attractive and high quality learning opportunities, to support them in the acquisition of soft skills and entrepreneurial competences and to ensure and maintain their participation in the entrepreneurial environment with a special focus on creative and cultural industries. The partnership will provide a cross-sectorial open platform (merging concepts of cultural and creative sectors, adult education, entrepreneurship addressed to women) in an innovative and attractive educational project that will empower them set up their own businesses. Through the assessment and validation of soft and entrepreneurial competences, Female Entrepreneur will design a set of quality tools and materials that will strengthen women’s self-consciousness and capacity to decide on the training paths more adequate for them.

Project Website

http://www.femalentrepreneur.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 224095 Eur

Project Coordinator

CAMARA DE COMERCIO E INDUSTRIA ITALIANA PARA ESPANA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• DOMSPAIN SLU
• C.M. SKOULIDI & SIA E.E.
• Agencija za ruralni razvoj Zadarske zupanije
• COOPERATION BANCAIRE POUR L’EUROPE
• Asociatia Institutul pentru Parteneriat Social Bucovina
• G.G. EUROSUCCESS CONSULTING LIMITED